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Meng Tian was stunned for a moment, and said, "What kind of sound is this, it seems that it sounded just now." ”

The soldiers beside Meng Tian were also at a loss, and at this time, a pro-soldier said: "General Hui, this seems to be the cry of a tiger, the villain went out hunting with Miss the year before last and fought a tiger, so I heard the cry of a tiger, it seems to be this sound." ”

Its practice of hunting is very popular among the magnates of various countries, and tigers are not rare animals in this era, and there is no [Wildlife Protection Law], when hunting, they are proud to hunt tigers, so many people have seen tigers. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Zhuanggong's younger brother Lu Gongzi Yan is very cool and good at hunting, by the joy of hunting tigers, Lu Zhuang Gong 11 years (648 BC) Song and Qi two armies jointly attacked Lu, into Langcheng (now northwest of Yanzhou, Shandong), Lu Song and Song armies fought in Chengqiu (now Yanzhou, Shandong East), Gongzi Yan took out more than 100 tiger skins, attacked the Song army on horseback, the Song army saw the tiger skin of the war horse rushing and frightened. Lu Zhuanggong led the main force to follow up, but the Song army was defeated, and Song Dafu Nangong Changwan was captured. And these tiger skins are basically borrowed by Gongzi Yan.

However, Meng Tian was a young man in the army, and most of the time was spent in the barracks, either to fight outside, or to train soldiers or study the art of war, so he had little time to hunt, which was very different from his sister Meng Ling, if Meng Ling was here, he would have heard the cry of a tiger a long time ago.

But hearing what this pro-soldier said, Meng Tian was also stunned and said, "Why are there tigers coming out next to the camp tonight?" ”

The other soldiers also looked at each other, and no one could answer, and while everyone was talking, they heard two more tiger roars.

Meng Tian frowned, originally he was the chief general of the whole army, and he didn't need to train at night, but Meng Tian was cautious in using his troops, and now he was facing the plateau, so he didn't dare to be careless at all, and he would personally inspect it for a period of time every day, so that the whole army didn't dare to relax. It's just that I didn't expect to encounter such a thing tonight.

In fact, there are tigers next to the camp, which is not a big deal, because there are many tigers in this era, and they are far from the point of extinction, and people's hunting skills are not too clever, there are not a dozen people, it is impossible to deal with a tiger, so tigers can still run rampant, some villages close to mountains and forests, and even towns, tigers will be seen in broad daylight.

However, Meng Tian has been in the army for many years, and it is the first time he has heard a tiger roar by the barracks, so he faintly feels that something is wrong in his heart. And at this moment, Meng Tian's heart moved, and said, "What about the night patrol team?" Call the man on duty tonight to come to me. ”

The soldiers agreed, and immediately ran away, and after a while, he came to Meng Tian with Peng Rui, the general who was responsible for keeping vigil tonight.

Peng Rui first saluted Meng Tian and said, "I've seen General Meng." ”

Meng Tian said: "No need to be polite, why is there a tiger outside the camp tonight, there was such a situation before." ”

Peng Rui said: "The last general doesn't know why there are tigers near the camp tonight, it has never happened before. ”

Meng Tian said: "What about the soldiers who patrol the night? When they were out patrolling the night, did they see the whereabouts of tigers? ”

Peng Rui shook his head and said, "General Hui, none of the night patrol teams that came back have seen the whereabouts of the tigers, but there are five night patrol teams that have not yet returned, and according to the time, these five teams should be back." ”

When Meng Tian was sinking, there were two tiger roars outside the camp, and before the tiger roar fell, there were a few more "woo" wolf howls, Meng Tian's face changed slightly, it seemed that there were not only tigers outside the camp, but also wolves, and at this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in Meng Tian's heart, whether these teams would be buried outside the camp in the wolf's belly.

However, Meng Tian quickly dispelled this idea, because the five night patrol teams, a total of 250 people, if all of them were eaten by tigers and wolves, how many tigers and wolves would be needed, so Meng Tian also felt that his idea was too exaggerated.

But despite this thought, the howls of tigers and wolves outside the camp could not help but stop, but became more and more dense, and there were even the roars of other beasts mixed with them. Even many Qin soldiers in the depths of the camp heard it and came out of their tents to see what was going on.

And Meng Tian also felt that the situation was wrong at this time, if it was excusable if there were one or two tigers or wolves infested near the big camp, then now it sounded like there were at least no less than a hundred beasts outside the big camp, and so many wild beasts infested near the big camp, it was obviously not a normal phenomenon. However, Meng Tian also felt very strange in his heart, why were there so many beasts wandering around the Qin army's camp tonight, could it be said that this was made by the Dai Army, or by the plateau?

But Meng Tian immediately denied his idea, although he had also heard that in the battles of ancient times, such as the battle of Zhuolu between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and the battle of Muye where King Wu fell, there were cases of driving wild beasts to fight, but these wars are very old, and the records in ancient historical materials are not detailed, and there are even inconsistencies, many of which are even passed on by word of mouth, so it sounds more like myths and legends, Meng Tian has never taken these stories seriously, at least in the battle examples that Meng Tian knows and have rigorous historical records, There was no real beast driving battle, so Meng Tian never believed that there was really someone who could drive the beast to fight. Although Gao Yuan is a famous general in the world, Meng Tian does not believe that Gao Yuan really has the ability to drive beasts and fight.

Just as Meng Tian was thinking about it, he saw a Qin soldier hurriedly running to Meng Tian's approach, looking frightened, and said, "General, old... Tigers, and wolves, a lot of wolves......"

Meng Tian was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "What are you panicking about? But are a few tigers and a few wolves calling? There's something terrible. ”

The Qin soldiers shook their heads again and again, and said, "It's not just a few tigers and a few wolves, but there are many, many tigers, many wolves, bears, leopards, apes, ......."

The more Meng Tian listened, the more confused he became, and said, "What kind of nonsense is it said......

Before the words were finished, I only heard some roars from outside the camp, and the sound was even louder, obviously closer to the camp of the Qin army, it seemed to be near the camp, and from the sound of the sound, there were also the roars of other animals, not just a few tigers and a few wolves.

So Meng Tian didn't have time to ask in detail, so he hurried a few steps to the camp wall, climbed the camp wall, and looked out. Because there are a lot of torches around the camp of the Qin army, they are very bright, and they can be seen at a relatively long distance, so I saw that at a distance of forty or fifty steps outside the camp, there were faintly countless black shadows shaking, and they were moving in the direction of the camp of the Bingjun army, some of which were closer to the camp, and it could be seen very clearly that there were almost all kinds of beasts such as jackals, tigers, leopards, bears, apes, etc., and there seemed to be a lot of them, at least hundreds of them, maybe up to a thousand. For a while, the tiger roared and the wolf howled, and the leopard roared and the ape cried, and the sound was endless, and it was also creepy and chilling.

Meng Tian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, there were so many beasts from there, and why did they all rush to the side of the Qin army's camp, could it be that there was really some magic on the plateau that could drive the beasts?

And looking left and right, the soldiers of the Qin army obviously had a frightened look, and some people were chanting words in their mouths, and they didn't know what to say again? This is not to say that Qin Bing is not brave enough, but ordinary people have an instinctive fear of wild beasts, even if some people have the experience of hunting, they have never seen so many wild beasts, so anyone will have a hairy heart.

In fact, Meng Tian's heart was also a little nervous, but as the commander of the first army, of course he couldn't show cowardice at this time, so he shouted: "What are you panicking about? We have a camp wall to protect us, are we afraid that these wild beasts will storm the camp? Where are the archers, shoot me with bows and arrows, and shoot these beasts to death. ”

At this time, there were a lot of Qin soldiers defending on the camp wall, and a considerable part of them were archers, and the beasts running in front were less than twenty steps away from the Qin army's camp, and they had almost reached the edge of the trench in front of the camp wall.

After listening to Meng Tian's reprimand, the Qin soldiers came back to their senses, and they didn't feel a little ashamed in their hearts, there was a wooden fence wall nearly two meters high outside the Qin army's camp, and a ditch as wide as a zhang, although a trench more than a zhang wide may not be able to stop the beasts from advancing, but the wooden fence wall is indeed enough to fence the beasts, and they still have weapons, as well as bows and arrows, how can they be afraid of these beasts.

Therefore, the Qin soldiers also felt bold, and the archers bent their bows and arrows one after another, shooting at the beasts outside the camp. Although there were not many archers in the Qin army at this time, the beasts were too close at this time, and they were also very dense, and after the arrows were shot, they did hit many beasts.

If it is in battle, the effect of this round of blows is of course very obvious, enough to make the opponent's offensive stagnate, but now the Qin army is not facing the enemy, but the beast, first, the beast's skin is thick and the strength of the bow and arrow to the beast is limited; Second, the vitality of wild beasts is much more tenacious than that of humans, so although many wild beasts were hit by arrows, not only did they not fall to the ground, but instead stimulated the wild nature of wild beasts. Experienced hunters know that the wounded beast is the most terrifying.

Many of the beasts, though they were hit by arrows, were more energetic, roared louder, ran faster, and not only jumped over the trench, but also climbed towards the wooden fence. However, neither tigers, leopards, nor bears and wolves could not climb over the two-zhang high wooden fence wall, so they slid down one after another, and some of the wild beasts even slipped into the trench, and were pierced by the antlers in the trench, screaming miserably, but the beasts behind continued to jump over the trench and attack the camp wall.